We released the first beta of .NET 3.5 SP 1 this morning, and it includes a change to the default grant set for applications launched from the LocalIntranet zone. The quick summary is that as of .NET 3.5 SP1, applications run from a network share will...

Many managed applications start up slower than they really need to because of time spent verifying their strong name signatures. For most of these applications, the strong name verification isn't buying the application anything - especially fully trusted...